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I have been thinking about this for a long time, it happens now on FB and whatsapp but happened earlier on email. It's like a chain of trust where everyone tru
by singold 10y ago
I have been thinking about this for a long time, it happens now on FB and whatsapp but happened earlier on email.
It's like a chain of trust where everyone trusts the last person who shared something but you never know on who you are trusting at the start of this "chain" if you share. So people share a lot of BS :/
- TeMPOraL 10y agoOTOH maybe less BS than what they otherwise would? I know that myself, I have an implicit categorization in my head about which of my FB friends knows about what, and which friends are just prone to share random clickbait. I approach the news I see accordingly.
- CM30 10y agoTo be fair, that's also how a lot of news gets reported in the actual media too. One forum or social media user says something interesting which then gets picked up by a bunch of smaller blogs which then in turn attract attention from well known news outlets. It's how literal 'fake news' has gotten into the mass media. Because a bunch of smaller sites fell for a fake news site quoting a (non existent) interview from anther site, and then the likes of the Metro and Daily Mail assumed they knew what they were talking about. And that's not even getting into industries where copy and pasting stories is seen as a 'default'. The gaming press is very easy to 'compromise' with photoshopped pictures and fake information, since everyone basically just takes their news from everyone else. So yeah, not a social media or average Joe exclusive issue here. But one which affects the media itself.